Volun-told - A supposedly optional event, award, assignment, or activity in which a person (or persons) are required to attend either by persons-in-charge nominating them or their peers expecting them to be there. The individual often has no say in the matter, and non-attendance in frowned upon.I am so tired of seeing terrible people, being admired, for being terrible people.

For Blizz its a model of which leads to greater subscription loss, frustration or boredom.

Easing content to allow for more progression, which leads to faster boredom and cancellation.

Not easing progression to throttle progression, which leads frustration and cancellation.

Blizz has been betting on the former model lately. But gear upgrades seem to be a way for them to dip their toe into the idea of easing progression. Spending a full 1000vp on upgrades a week is like a 2-3% buff in the item level of a 500'sh ilevel person.

If you saved up 3000 VPs for 5.3, you get ~3 added to your average overall itemlevel if you spend it all when the patch drops. That's quite huge really. And of course that will only just continue in smaller rapid bursts of reliable increase in iLvl - whereas before, gear drops aren't necessarily reliable - with really bad luck a raid could go one week to the next with a 0 increase in raid item level. VP upgrades are pretty much guaranteed, until well, every piece of your gear is upgraded.

Ahead of the Curve: Will of the EmperorDefeat the Will of the Emperor in Mogu'shan Vaults on Normal difficulty, before the discovery of the Throne of Thunder.
You got this FoS before 5.2 came out with the ToT raid. Also, in 5.2 MV was given the 10% nerf.

Now there is this FoS instead:Ahead of the Curve: Lei ShenDefeat Lei Shen in Throne of Thunder on Normal difficulty, prior to the release of patch 5.4.

So if its the same as the "Ahead of the Curve: Will of the Emperor", then ToT should also recieve a nerf at 5.4, but not before that!